I didn’t do much with the Scout this weekend, other than drive it on Saturday morning before the rains came. I did, however, pick up my used bench seat, two inner fenders and windshield frame from the bed of Mr. Clean’s pickup on my way through Columbia, and offloaded everything on Monday afternoon. The bench seat cleaned up nicely after a scrubbing with some carwash solution, although it’s got some stains that probably will never come out.
The inner fenders are a little weak in places but will make for good templates down the line when I’m ready to bend some steel. And the windshield frame looks good on the outside, but the sound of rust sliding down the inner chambers tells me it’s going to be more work than I thought.
Update: simply swapping in the new seat for the old seat did not work. The latch which swings down and catches the two pins bolted to the sides of the wheel wells did not line up properly (too far rearward) and no amount of cajoling would get them to line up. So I may have to disassemble the rear bench and bolt the old hardware onto the new upholstery—only after I’ve measured the distance from the front mounting bolts to the rear latch.